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Are You Smarter than an Undergraduate? August 2025Vladimyr Impact2024-12-04T12:39:20-06:00

Are you smarter than an undergraduate

PDHengineer's monthly quiz for engineers

Escape the summer heat and challenge your engineering mind. Take the quiz and prove you’re hotter than the summer sun.

Question 1: Routing power wiring and instrument signal wiring in the same conduit or cable tray __________.
- Can cause excessive heat buildup
- Can adversely affect the accuracy of instrumentation due to EMI
- Can significantly increase the voltage losses in the power wiring
- Is recommended to save space and money

Question 2: Viton is a _______ trademarked by Dupont and commonly used for O-rings, gaskets and seals.
- Natural rubber compound
- Fluoropolymer elastomer and synthetic rubber compound
- Thermoplastic
- Soft stainless steel alloy

Question 3: The speed of sound in a liquid is a function of the liquid's ___________.
- Bulk modulus
- Viscosity
- Reynolds number
- All of the above

Question 4: Conductive heat flow through a solid wall increases with ____________.
- Decreasing thermal conductivity of the wall material
- Decreasing thickness of the wall
- Decreasing temperature difference on each side of the wall
- All of the above

Question 5: The Rational Method is used to calculate ______________.
- Liquid flow rate in a pipe
- Peak runoff in a watershed
- Bending stress in a beam
- Soil bearing capacity

Question 6: A camber beam ___________ to counteract deflections caused by vertical loads, particularly on long spans.
- Has two beams stacked vertically
- Is constructed using high strength material
- Has an upward concave curve
- Has gusset plates

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